A moderately branched, up to c. 1 m high shrub. Stems ascending-erect, glabrous or sparsely tomentose, leafy, becoming glabrous and nude and marked with leaf-scars. Leaves alternate, in five indistinct, slightly twisted rows, erecto-patent, ± flat, mid-ribbed, narrowly elliptic, 6-10 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, glabrous or pilose marginally and on mid-rib dorsally, indistinctly glandular-punctate, very glutinous, acute. Capitula 3-7 together in terminal cymes. Peduncles 2-25 mm long. Involucre narrowly cyathiform, 2.5-5 mm wide. Involucral bracts 25-35, in five slightly twisted vertical rows, sub-equal, outer ovate, inner gradually narrower and oblong, innermost narrowly oblong and straight and apically brownish, up to 8 mm long, up to 2 mm wide, acute. Receptacle convex, paleate. Paleae canaliculate, linear or narrowly lanceolate, 6-8 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, dorsally gland-dotted, acute. Ray-florets 5-10. Tube cylindrical, 1.2-2.5 mm long. Lamina elliptic, 3-5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, 4-veined. Style 3.2-4.8 mm long; style-branches 1.5-2 mm long. Achenes as in disc-florets, but usually with more hairs. Disc-florets 15-30, perfect. Corolla 4.1-5 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide. Tube cylindrical, densely glandular on upper half. Limb narrowly cyathi-form; corolla lobes 0.5-0.8 mm long. Style 4.5-5.5 mm long; style-branches 0.7-1 mm long, apically penicillate and truncate; stylopodium ± distinct. Anthers 2.5-2.9 mm long; tails c. 1/3 of the length of the anther. Achenes terete or somewhat angular, narrowly oblong, 2.2-3.5 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pilose basally and on lateral ribs; pappus crownlike, of ± connate scales, up to 1 mm long.
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Similar to O. multipunctata but leaves elliptic, densely glutinous and not gland-dotted.